Frankfurt Germany

Dr. Anja HESELICH

Lector la Congresul Român de Chirurgie Ortognatică, 13-15 Iunie 2024
Despre Anja HESELICH

Dr. Anja Heselich is a natural scientist and engineer working in clinical and translational research at the University Clinics of the Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. She has studied Chemical Technology with focus on Biotechnology at the University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt, Germany, where she graduated as an engineer in 2004, and subsequently worked at the universities’ Department for Biotechnology as an engineer for several years. First in teaching and later in research projects, including research projects for the German Federal Office for Radiation Protection.

In 2009 she moved on to the “Developmental Biology and Neurogenetics” group of Prof. Dr. Paul G. Layer at the Technical University Darmstadt (TUD), where she graduated as PhD in 2012. After her graduation, she worked as a postdoc in two research projects founded by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) on behalf of the European Space Agency’s’ (ESA) IBER program regarding the evaluation of the radiation risk on the cardiovascular and the visual system during space flights to Mars. Following this, she was able to extend her own research on the influence of near infrared radiation on the cellular radiation response to ionizing radiation, which was founded by the Dr. h. c. Erwin Braun Foundation in Basel.

In 2014 she switched to the Biophysics Department of the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research, Darmstadt where she was working on the influence of chromatin structures on DNA repair processes after heavy ion radiation induced DNA damage. Both, her research regarding the effects of non-ionizing radiation on ionizing-radiation induced damage, as well as her research on the effects of heavy ion irradiation on the DNA damage repair, were always focusing on understanding these effects in related therapy regimes of radiation-based tumor therapies.

Her current position at the FORM-lab, the research lab of the department for Oral- and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University Clinics of the Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, where she started in 2018, brought her even closer to research-based improvement of patients’ therapies. At FORM-lab she is coordinating and evaluating clinical and translational studies regarding biomaterial application for bone and soft tissue regeneration as well as oncological studies in the head and neck area.

Since her PhD at the TUD she is involved in teaching as well and has been given lectures, seminars, and practical courses in the areas of Developmental Biology and Tissue Engineering, in DNA damage repair and Biophysics, in Human Biology for Engineers, and currently in Medical Technology.

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OMF SURGERY CLUJ 2024

13-15 iunie 2024

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